About Us

We're a not-for-profit organisation that prioritises local food, direct trade with farmers and community-scale food chains. Crop Drop is run by Haringey residents and only deliver our service in Haringey. We keep costs down for customers, give farmers a fair price and plough our profits back into supporting sustainable agriculture and urban growing.

It all started with Rachel's obsession with food – cooking it, eating it and pondering where it comes from. This developed into a growing sense of wanting to contribute towards a fairer, more sustainable food system that gives people more meaningful relationships with food and the people that produce it.

With the help of her trusty friend Yao, her brother's tiny Smart car and support from the Growing Communities Start-up programme, Crop Drop was born and started trading in October 2013.

Crop Drop is now a small team of dedicated local people that are as obsessed with food as Rachel. Why Haringey? Because that's where we live - it's our favourite patch of London. We believe small-scale food trade is the best way to support urban agriculture and small organic farms. So we're keeping it really local. Alongside our sister box schemes across the UK, the Better Food Traders, we're creating a national network of community-scale box schemes that are changing the food system from the grassroots, helping to create an alternitive system that is resilient and farmer-friendly.

The Team

Rachel Dring

Founder & Director

Laura Goodman

Director

Gemma Seddon

Communities Co-ordinator

Jo Frew & Gemma Seddon

Delivery Team

Lynda, Matt, Loretta, Helen & Louisa

Packing & Delivery Volunteer Team

Wendy Rowan

Veg Scheme Co-ordinator

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This veg box scheme was launched with help from the Growing Communities Start-up Programme which aims to transform the food system by helping people set up local, sustainable vegetable box schemes across the country.

This veg box scheme was launched with help from the Growing Communities Start-up Programme which aims to transform the food system by helping people set up local, sustainable vegetable box schemes across the country.